20.10.2007   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 247/26


Judgment of the Court of First Instance of 12 September 2007 — Italy and Brandt Italia v Commission

(Joined Cases T-239/04 and T-323/04) (1)

(State aid - Legislation providing for urgent measures to assist employment for undertakings in difficulties - Decision declaring the aid scheme incompatible with the common market and ordering recovery of aid paid)

(2007/C 247/39)

Language of the case: Italian

Parties

Applicant in Case T-239/04: Italian Republic (represented by: D. Del Gaizo, Agent)

Applicant in Case T-323/04: Brandt Italia SpA (Verolanuova, Italy) (represented by: M. van Empel, C. Visco and S. Lamarca, lawyers)

Defendant: Commission of the European Communities (represented by: V. Di Bucci, C. Giolito and E. Righini, Agents)

Re:

Annulment of Commission Decision 2004/800/EC of 30 March 2004 on the State aid scheme put into effect by Italy providing for urgent measures to assist employment (OJ 2004 L 352, p. 10).

Operative part of the judgment

The Court:

1.

Dismisses the actions;

2.

Orders the Italian Republic to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Commission in Case T-239/04;

3.

Orders Brandt Italia SpA to bear its own costs and to pay those incurred by the Commission in Case T-323/04.


(1)  OJ C 217, 28.8.2004.